The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-08-28

Boys and the Panther--How an Indian
Was Whipped by an Old Sow.
The Old Pioneer is bothered almost
nightly by his great-grandchildren for
stories of his boyhood days and the
ways Of the people who lived in the
backwoods of Ohio. The desires Of the
boys ran mostly to "reminiscences of
bears and Indians, tales of war and the
chase That of Polly inclincs more to
stories of the pioneers themselves. and
Polly being the old mans favorite,
certainly the most imperative of his
audience, generally has her way about
such things. But the other night her
brothers, one older and the other
younger than Polly, declared so vche-
licmently that they had right to
choose a subject that even Polly,
though, as usual, curled up in the old
mani S lap, graciously waived what she
considered her vested rights, she ad-
lnitted for once she should not object
to q story about bear.
.'But think if you can't remember
some thing about II little bear, Grandpa
Ia baby bear that wouldn't eat up
children like the bears in the Bible
that ate up the children that told 'Lsha
to git up, old Baldhead?' :"
Tie old man laughed little, to HIM
self as he said: well, Poll, I'm not
SO mighty sure cf the bars we had them
days was the kind old Lsha he'd fo,-
lerin him. Don't b'lievc they'd cat
children. Hold on, though; come to
think. they ulster eat up a lamb now n
then, n they liked a nice, fat little pig
most too well.n
Polly shuddered and drew up her
feet until she made herself into little
round ball, with her fluffy yellow hair
as top-knot, and her blue eyes
rounder and brighter than ever.
II he'd a bar myself. once" con-
tinued he; "a little Teller Father n
my Big brothers brought him home
from a big hunt they took one time,
after they'd killed the old mother ;
the other cub. He wuz bout as big ez
big puppy, IN looked lots like one,
jest ez fat IS butter, 18th nice, black,
shaggy hide N tn funniest face you
ever sirw. He wuz ez cute s kitten
III bout ez mischievous, soon 5 got so
he knowed our ways. He'd git into
more mischief than all the family could
keep him out NV. IN # he hadn't been so
blamed comical he'd gone into TIL
nleat-bsrrel ez fresh meat long afore
he did. Mother d say dozen times a
week tibet she'd enough ter do 'thout
watchin' ar, N t wouldn't be more
N IN hour afore she'd be laughin' at n
pettin' him like tn rest NV us. He'd
watch, n if ever she'd leave tn milk
house SOS he could git tn door open
he'd pry roun' till he'd git in, n then
he go for TIL butter, n lap up whole
crock O. milk fore you could say Jack
Robinson. N if she'd come after him
n slap him over. he'd turn summer
set N come up right side foremost n
paddle after her. cryin' like child
till she'd stop n pet him n he'd seem
to think it wuz all right N go off t.
find somethin' else ter do. Then he d
go down by tn pond n watch tn
young ducks IN geese till he'd catch
one, n he'd paw it over n over n
play with it till tn old mother'd jest
raise TIL biggest kind O. rumpus N fly
at i'm in fury. That wuz fun, n
he'd never mind it till some one o.
us'd come down n make him quit, N
then he'd trot off t. find somethin'
else. By the mex summer Bruno, ez
we called i'm, got ter be a right smart
bar, n more full O. mischief N ever.
One Sunday they WIZ big meetin' a
few miles off n we all went. i shet
Bruno up in tn corn-crib N
thought he'd stay there all
right. He cried m whined when
he see us all goin' t leave him-he
liked company better'n most people n
hated worse pizen t. be shet up. We
stayed till most night, n when
got home mother opened tn door-she
wuz ahead O. the rest NV us-'n jest
stopped n held up her hands n sed:
Mercy on me! Who's bin here! N
there wuz tn awfulest mess you ever
saw. Looked like they'd bin a tornado
turned loose n tn house. All tn
chairs were turned over n layin' every
which way, n every thin else n tn
room wuz mixed up n some O. them
broke. N all over the floor wuz marks
= o. bars feet, n the marks wuz all
sticky One o. tn windows wuz open,
IN all round it wnz marks o bars feet.
They went upstairs, too, n mother
knowed in minute whose feet he'd bin
there; n soon's she got over her sur
prise she begin ter git mad, N jest
flew upstairs. Things there wuz
bout ez they WIZ downstairs, but
she didn't see any Bruno, till present
~ she heard kinder groan, N looked
roun', N finally she see big bunch in
orc o. tn beds N turned down til GOV.
ers-'n there wuz Bruno. sure 'nough
jes' plastercd all over 18th mapie-sirup
y iookin' so slammed and kinder sorry
Z 4 n,other'd laughed 4 she hadn't bir
So mad at tn state she found things
specially her best bed fer company. Il
uz Jest nacherly ruined tween TIL ma
pie-sirup n tn bar. When we come
Ter cipher it all out it w plain 'eongh
'Thct blamed bar'rd-got out o the corn
rrib. Then be come moseyin' round
Vi house t find some body t play it'll
him, n not fintIin' nobody he'd CUR
down suIler T. muse himself He'd go
t fooin' round tn barrel O maple
strip ill he'd got TIL faucet loose y
VI sirnp come a-pourin' out Tier
n.'d Jest put his mouth t. it n DRUM
I'll bed got plum full, N all tn tim,
~ 4 been ..-paddiin' in the strip a-run
nin out Oh III floor til he'd got danbes
ali pser it'll II. Bineby he'd got sicl
9Th 80 much sweetnin', n then hc's
climbed in through tibet open window
fer sympathy n he'd paIIed down bon
every thin in til house tryin' { find
doeton n when hs couldn't aud an
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